The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 4

It was all made of shells, blue and green and pink and lilac and white, shading into each other till you could not tell where one colour ended and the other began.

Who acts: you, one colour, other · What happens: make, shade, not tell, end, begin · To what, where: palace, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one colour, other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 shells	case
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blue	punct
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shells	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 green	cc
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pink	cc
12	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lilac	cc
14	lilac	lilac	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 white	cc
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lilac	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shading	punct
18	shading	shade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 shading	obl
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 tell	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 tell	advmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shading	advcl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 ended	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 colour	nummod
29	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ended	nsubj
30	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 began	nsubj
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ended	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		palace		of shells; all property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	shade	gerund			each		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	not tell speech: assert	could	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	end	past	one colour				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	begin	past	the other				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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